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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1895
Page
2
Duncan and Alice plot escape from a haunted house aided by Wood and Constancy. After weeks of secret meetings and a staged flight plan, they flee at night to a light gig, crossing into the park and toward the Scottish border, pursued but finally free.
The narrator reflects on life with Mrs Blakesley and Alice as their bond deepens. He notes growth in understanding, the limits of love without joy, and their calm future. They settle disputes over Lady Alice’s fortune, claim inheritance, and live in a house with cherished ancestral ties, aging together with hope.
The article profiles Senator Hill tracing his humble start as the New York Central railroad train boy selling papers cigars and gum. He rose to manage the Buffalo Albany line before turning to law and politics, becoming a delegate at a congressional nominating convention. His upbringing in Havana New York and modest wealth of about 50000 with much tied to his suburban home are noted.
A compilation ranges from a Ky hermit who raises rats after family loss to a West Virginia accident from a kettle break. It notes France England and US rail travel fatality rates, a Beaver Falls woman weighing nearly 300 pounds injured by a broken chair, a 102 year old Maine man who broke his hip after eighty years without a doctor, and a Japanese rule of paternal descent. It also mentions a Long Island area record where five brothers and five sisters total 813 years across ages, oldest over 93, second oldest 92.
A quirky Maine piece reports a Waterville man praying as cats in a furnace shaft interrupt with a hymned chorus. Belfast butcher John Berry plans a Portland trip driving a trained mammoth swine hitched to a cart, with two tame skunks as outriders. Chicago zoo scientists marvel at a rattlesnake with ten young beside her, noting she lay eggs and the young awaken for action.
An old style medical ad touts Jerter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for heartburn sour stomach nervous uneasiness and stomach emptiness. It claims relief from constipation biliousness rheumatic issues kidney and malaria problems and promises permanent results. The text includes humorous asides and references to hunger and appetite.
Fragments show a 19th century legal affidavit promising a reward for cures of catarrh and a notice for Hart's Catarrh Cure. Also mentions notary public, and assorted testimonials. Multiple unrelated snippets include a drug ad line and a quip about debts and dying.
Fragmentary ad copy lists 1,006 bushels of potatoes per acre and yields of corn and vegetables, inviting readers to request a seed book from John A. Salter Seed Co in La Crosse Wisconsin. It also includes scattered phrases about Piso's Cure and various authors, suggesting a garbled advertisement page mix from old newspapers.
The passage touts cures by Gods Sarsaparilla claiming impure blood fuels disease germs and causes scrofula salt rheum rheumatism catarrh grip and typhoid fever. It argues weak nerves prove the body’s organs lack nourishment and depend on blood.
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